t's much less daunting once you've put your foot on the road to it. I'm a notorious couch potato and I don't like exercise. Half an hour of physical exercise, like jogging or fast walking a day is a start.

Maybe it's a little ambitious of me to presume that no matter how big the film is, that I can always go down to the shop to buy a pint of milk.

You don't step on stage to eat; you go there to be eaten.

I'd learned how to lie and manipulate from an early age so a combination of that, desperation, having to have my own fridge and my umbilical cord back... I had to go out into the world. Then some angel somewhere said: "Have you considered going to drama school?" And this sounded like the solution to all of my problems.

Vanity is normal in performers. Does it bother other people? All the time. But nine times out of 10, that says more about them than you.

I have a very busy head. I have inside voices that I have learned to contain.

I'm an armchair psychologist, I suppose, and I like to kind of sit around and guess and pretend I know what's going on.